NOC National Oil : Statement

Eng. / Mustafa Sanalla said that 'the quantities that have been consumed from the diesel product at Zawia power plant after the crime of closing of the gas pipeline valve at Bir Terfas are about forty thousand (40,000) metric tons costing approximately US $18,500,000. This loss is to be added to other losses related to this heinous crime in terms of the increase of smuggling operations and the increase of people's consumption of cooking gas, kerosene for heating and diesel fuel to operate their power generators in addition to other material losses resulted from the power failure. The fuel smugglers and crises dealers are the only ones who benefit from such humanitarian catastrophe'.

Sanalla also added that 'the biggest loss is the loss of lives that are killed in the intensive care rooms and infant hospital incubators. I wonder how those killers will face Allah the Glorified and Exalted He Be and which argument or pretext they would use to justify their crimes, considering the suffering and pains incurred by all parts of Libya whether in the south, north, east or west. This crime was just a settling of accounts between the smuggling gangs of which the ordinary citizens were the victims. National Oil Corporation confirms that its legal proceedings against this crime are well under way and shall not be subject to any statute of limitations. I call upon all relatives of the victims and everyone who incurred a material damage as a result of this crime to take the legal actions against those criminals so that those criminals will be a lesson for anyone who thinks of repeating such dreadful crime'.

Closing natural gas transfer pipelines and oil and gas production fields is a terrorist act per se and it is a conduct that shows the lack of patriotism and human ethics within anyone who commits it. NOC, Brega Oil Marketing Company, the Committee of Fuels and the Committee awarding the stations' licenses affirm the availability of fuel and that they work persistently and exert all their efforts to solve the problem of fuel distribution resulted from the smuggling gangs, the power failure and the unavailability of power generators in all the stations.

Tripoli

21 January 2017